Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count contested provisional ballots, rejecting Republican plea

As of Thursday, about 9,000 ballots out of more than 1.6 million returned have arrived at elections offices around Pennsylvania lacking a secrecy envelope

I'll wait for our MAGA loons to contrive a reason why a ballot without a secrecy envelope should be rejected.

...a signature or a handwritten date, according to state records.

That's the full quote for those wanting the full and accurate context.

“Your ballot must be enclosed and sealed in the yellow envelope marked "official election ballot" or it will not be counted.”

sounds prey clear to me and is clear instructions based on the law of Pennsylvania.

https://www.pa.gov/en/agencies/vote/voter-support/mail-in-and-absentee-ballot.html#howto

So courts gonna start just randomly changing laws again like last time?

Pretty clear. “MAGA loons” don’t make election law.

If it’s not necessary to have a security envelope or a valid signature or a pre election actual date, change the law. In the legislature. Well before any election.

my understanding is the security envelope prevents the postal service or anyone prior to it getting counted from being able to see which candidate the vote is for.

isn’t this a good thing to prevent any appearance of fraud?

The ruling is a victory for voting-rights advocates, who had sought to force counties — primarily Republican-controlled counties — to let voters cast a provisional ballot on Election Day if their mail-in ballot was to be rejected for a garden-variety error.

"Garden-variety"......???

Wait a minute, totally irrelevant whether Democrat or Republican, this practice is questionable to say the least, open to abuse on a number of levels, almost impossible to prove.

Especially If these battleground states are close-fought.

A few thousand votes in a number of battel ground states could decide this 2024 election.

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania as the presidential campaigns vie in the final days before the election in the nation’s biggest battleground state.

MAGA might have thought with their stacked Supreme Court and other shenanigans they had this in the bag but you can sense fear, uncertainty, trembling in the MAGA faithful.

Fascinating. Discussions over votes erupting everywhere. And he we were told for the last 4 years that all these elections are totally secure and no meddling is possible at all....

Nothing for Democrat Marc Elias to contest if all election laws are followed, as written.

But if one isn’t, then he is eager to file lawsuits saying why other laws were followed when one wasn’t.

if you could make an exception here, you can also make an exception there.

cause Trump is gonna win the actual vote, so the “denial” will be on Team Kamal.

ZaphodToday 02:58 pm JST

Fascinating. Discussions over votes erupting everywhere. And he we were told for the last 4 years that all these elections are totally secure and no meddling is possible at all....

Lawfare is real but it is the attempt of the MAGAs to make voting difficult.

BlacklabelToday 02:39 pm JST

“Your ballot must be enclosed and sealed in the yellow envelope marked "official election ballot" or it will not be counted.”

How about this: you can require that stupid rules like security envolopes be followed and I can require that every single person that set foot unauthorized in the Captiol on Jan. 6th be locked up for life. Sound good?

Follow the voting instructions based on the law in your state as an eligible voter and voting is super simple.

it’s only hard (intentionally) if you can’t identify yourself, don’t follow the ballot instructions based on law, or aren’t eligible to vote in the first place.

Republicans won’t be satisfied with elections until only people in red states are allowed to vote.

are you ready...

you can require that stupid rules

its state LAW. Don’t like it, change it. Not a “stupid rule”.

that every single person that set foot unauthorized in the Captiol on Jan. 6th be locked up for life

that’s not LAW. Neither then nor now. Want it, make it a law for the future.

BlacklabelToday 03:49 pm JST

that every single person that set foot unauthorized in the Captiol on Jan. 6th be locked up for life

that’s not LAW. Neither then nor now. Want it, make it a law for the future.

It is the law that they can be locked up for decades if they so much as looked at a police officer funny.

Standing in line for hours to vote. It's a national disgrace.

Voter suppression is alive and well. polling places across the u.s. have been stripped by 27,000 in the last 10 years. supreme court gutted the voting rights act.

Reports are voters in predominately black areas around Atlanta have to wait up to 5 hours in line to vote.

white areas? average time is 6 minutes.

If the Supreme Court decides this way, so shall it be!

As much as I know the US still has a functioning justice system.

"b&b",

I won't leave here, there'll always be so much to do.

By the way "Dems nastiness"? Could you provide me with some examples?

On the contrary, MAGA and Trump (supporter's) nastiness can be found in abundance!

Want an example: "....the “denial” will be on Team Kamal."

Not even the decency to spell the VPs name correctly!

What is the margin of error in ballot counting in US elections?

Can a bulk load tossed in the bin change anything?

Can't rest - this is just one of many far-right attempt to suppress the vote and at the same time scream "fraud"...

The far-right websites and media sphere are full of crazed, demented conspiracy theories, most generated from Russia and China, and our MAGA-friends buy right into them - showing once again how easy they are to manipulate...

Trump knows he's lost, MAGA-world is assuming he'll lose, and Russia and China re doing their best to incite the MAGA-masses to violence - worse than last time...

I implore out MAGA-friends, don't be played by our enemies, accept the eventual defeat, and put away the assault rifles, knives, and hammers...

So MAGA-friends, a quick question...

You have shared your view numerous times that it was "lawful" for VP Pence to refuse to certify the 2020 election results from the states, and that he should have done so - so they could be returned to the states and re-certified...

Irrespective of the fact that the author of this view, John Eastman, admitted to Pence's legal counsel that this would be a violation of federal law...

Why is it NOT legal for VP Harris to do so?

lincolnman

Why is it NOT legal for VP Harris to do so?

Getting ready for defending the establishment disputing the election results when Trump wins? The whiplash from the 180 degree turn of the narrative will be epic.